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CHARLES n. CARTER, onnnw YORK, N. Y. i

COMBINED GOAL AND GAS STOVE.

. Specification of Letters Batent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1919.

Application filed. March 20, 1918 Serial No. 223,532.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, CHARLES D. CARTER,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of New York, State of New ork, have invented a new and useful Combined Coal and Gas Stove, of which the following is a specification.

i It has heretofore been proposed to pro vide a stove or cooking range. with asingle oven which could be heated by fuel of either a solid or a fluid nature. Considerable difiiculty has, however, arisen in a stove of this type in obtaining the same efiiciency with one type of fuel as with the other, since if a maximum efiiciency is obtained with solid fuel, such as coal, the same efficiency cannot be obtained when employing gas as a fuel. The same holds true if the construction is such that a maximumefficiency is obtained with gas since the same eflioiencyhas not been obtained when coal is used as a fuel. It is the primary object of my present invention to devise a novel construction of a stove which will give the same efliciency with a solid fuel as it will with a fluid fuel. In accordance with my present invention, the oven bottom is provided with an opening which when the stove is used with coal is covered by a conventional construction ofa cover. When the stove is to be used with gas, such cover is removed and the flames from a burner located beneath the opening pass through such opening and cooperate with a novel construction and are rangement of a combined baffle and grid which is removable as aunit from the oven and is used only when fuel of a fluid nature is employed. e

My invention further consistslof a novel construction of a combined bafile and grid. A further purpose of my invention is to devise a novel construction and arrangement of a stove having a single oven adapted to be heated by coal or gas and wherein when gas is employed as a fuel, all of the operatlons which canbe carried out in connection with a regular gas range can be employed, such as for example, baking, roasting, and broiling. I v r Other novel features of construction and advantage will hereinafter more clearly appear in the detailed description ofmy invention. l

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawings a typical embodiment of it which 1s at present preferred by me, since this embodiment will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be varlously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumefntalities as herein shown and described. 1 Figure 1 represents, in sectional elevation, a combined coal and gas stove embodying my. invention, the section being taken on line 1-1of Fig. 2. v I l Fig.2. represents a section on line 2-2 ofFigrl, 1, U1 a i Fig. .31 represents a sectional view of a portion of a stove, showing the opening in the bottom. of the oven with a cover which closes such opening when solid fuel is used.

. Fig; 4 represents a top plan view of the combined bafiie and grid employed.

Fig. 5 represents a bottom plan viewof the construction. seen in Fig. 4, Fig.6 represents a section on line 6-6 of Fig. 4:. i

corresponding parts. a p Referring tothe drawings ldesignates a combined gas and coal stove embodying my invention and sinceoertain parts ofthe construction are old per sea, I havedeemed it unnecessary to illustrate and describe in detail the complete stove. The stove is. provided with a firepot 2 which is adapted to receive the solid fuel, such as for imilar numerals of reference indicate example, coal, wood, or their equivalents,

and which communicates with a flue 3 which passes around anoven 4, and into the smokepipe 5 in the usualmanner, the flue belng provided with, a damper controlled-port 6 in the penal manner. The bottom 7 of the oven is provided with an opening 8 which is surrounded by a depressedseat 9 adapted to receive a cover: 10, which when the stove is to be used for solid fuel is the positionfseen in Fig.3 and closes the opening 8. 'The seat 9 is provided with a desire number of apertures 11 which insure the proper ventilation of the oven when gas 1s employed as a fuel. The openmg 8 forms which are'preferably employed; The side standards 18 are slotted near their top to form guides for a baflle'19 which consists of a rectangular shaped frame, the sides of which are recessed on their bottom face so as to receive the plates 20 and 21 and be tween these plates is preferably disposed a layer of heat resisting material, such as for example, asbestos 22. The sheets 20 and 21 and the sheet of asbestos 22 are secured to th e baffle 19 by means of fastening devices 23, such as for example, rivets. The sides of the baffle "19 near the rearward end of the baffle are provided with the plates or shoes 24C. The plate or disk 16 is provided with a grasping handle 25 which has a longitudina'lly extending slot 26 into which extends an upwardly PIOjBCting lug 27 con nected" to or integral with the baffle 19;

28' designates a grasping handle which is I secured to the bafiie 19 by means of a fastening' device 29'. The stove is also provided with a burner chamber 30 having at its upperend the grating31 and provided with burners 32'.- i f r 33 is an exhaust flue communicating with the smoke pipe 5. i

In the operation of the stove,assuming that it is desired'to employ a solid fuel, such as coal, the combined baffle and grid 15 is removed from the oven the cover 10 is placed in the position seen in Fig. 3 to cover'the opening S an'd also the ventilatingapertures 11. 'When'iti is desired to use fuel of a fluid nature, such as for examvple', gas, the combined baflle and gridis employed, the"cover. 10' being first removed. The combined bafhe' and grid 15is placed on the ovenbott'omwith its forward post engaging the stop 34e If it is desired to bake, the'baffilt) is in its forward position seeni iirFigs. 1 and 4. Hit is desired to broil or cook, forexample to boil, the user takes hold of the-grasping handle 28 and slides the baflie 19 rearwardly' into the position seen in Fig, 2.

It will thus beseen that in accordance with present invention, When the stove is vused with gaaanything can be cooked in the oven in a similar manner to that in which thecooking can be effected on gas range, Th combined battle an'd'grid can as r p es we a Stove are the gas burner 32 when it is desired to cook anything with a slow heat, as is evident.

It will be seen that when the stove is used as a coal range, the combined baflie and grid 15 is removed from the even so that the entire space of the oven is available for cooking purposes.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a novel and useful combined coal and gas stove, which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while I have, in the present'instance, shown and described a typical embodiment of it which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that this embodiment is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope ofthe invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1'. In a stove of the character described,

an oven chamber, a burner chamber having means of communication with the lower portion of the oven chamber, a burner within the'burner chamber, a grid arranged above the burner chamber and having supporting legs, a loaflle arranged upon one side of the grid and having slidable connection therewith, a substantially horizontal handle carried by the grid and having a longitudinal slot, an element secured to the bafiie and operating within the longitudinal slot, and a second handle arranged above and near the first named handle and carried by said element.

' 2. In a stove of the character described, an oven chamber, a burner chamber having communication with the lower portion of the oven chamber, a burner within the burner chamber, an open grid arranged above the burner chamber and having supporting legs, the side legs of the grid having recesses formed therein, and a baflie arranged beneath the grid and slidable within the recesses of the legs and adapted to cover the opening of said grid.

3. In a stove of the character described, an oven chamber, a burner chamber having means of communication with the lower portion of the oven chamber, a burner within the burner chamber, a grid arranged above the burner chamber and having supporting legs, the side legs of the grid having recesses formed therein, a balhe arranged beneath the grid and slidable within the recesses, a handle carried by the grid and provided with a longitudinal slot, and an element secured to the baflie and slidable within the longitudinal slot.

4:. In a stove of the character described,

' above the burner chamber and having supporting legs, a baffle arranged upon one side of the grid and having slidable connection therewith, said 'baflie embodying a heat resisting element, a handle secured to the grid and havinga longitudinal slot, and 10 an element connected to the bafiie and slidable Within the longitudinal slot of the handle and adapted to shift the bafile.

CHARLES D. CARTER.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. WAGONER, WILLIAM H. KEFFER.

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